Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.

Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective was to penetrate ... thus ending Burnside's campaign. 5. Rifled Musket Union and Confederate troops make use of the rifled musket, which ...

A recent exhibition shows how soldiers sent in votes during the Civil War and World War II ... Still, she bravely served in the Union Army, becoming one of hundreds of women who fought in the ...

As Vice President Kamala Harris makes headlines for her gun ownership, Newsweek looks at all the presidents that have owned ...

hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first major battle in the Revolutionary War.

A pious and strong-willed king, Charles exhibited from childhood the characteristics that would lead to his downfall. By Dr Richard Cust.

When the trailers for the movie Civil War dropped a few months ago ... A group of men with rifles sit menacingly at a gas ...

The Civil War ended with Charles I's execution and the establishment of a Protestant Republic, but the Restoration saw various Protestant sects persecuted. In Wales the Quakers in particular were ...

The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational ...

A Civil War museum in Texas that has faced criticism ... The museum has on display both Union and Confederate artifacts, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Husband and wife duo Ray and ...

Once upon a time, a charismatic demagogue threatened civil war, while elected liberals flailed around helplessly ...

Carrie Brown returns to Lamoille Valley Osher Lifelong Learning from 1-2:15 p.m. at Stowe Cinema 3Plex on Wednesday, Oct. 16, ...